After Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jerome Robinson each eased their way off the bus that ferried them from their hotel to the Barclays Center for the biggest night of their young lives, they wound up next to each other as they awaited the start of the NBA draft.
The two of them began to talk, two young men excited about the experience that was about to take place that turned even more unimaginable when Gilgeous-Alexander and Robinson wound up as Clippers.
Robinson came by direct route, the Boston College shooting guard drafted 13th overall by the Clippers.
No matter what road the pair of 6-foot-6 guards traveled to get to the Clippers, Gilgeous-Alexander and Robinson will try to form a backcourt of the future for L.